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Avery freedman, law professor in cleveland. good to see you. >> hi. >> a new york criminal defense attorney and law professor, joining us from las vegas. good to see you as well. >> hi, fred. >> it has been too long since the three of us have been together. lets maximize the moment. okay, so the president elect, donald trump, if he indeed goes after clinton, can he, richard, do it through his attorney general and point a special prosecute, despite the fact that jim comey said the investigation i...

That gap? >> well, i think its very important for us to accept the fact that all of us as americans that we do have a new american president elect and going into this administration i think its important for the new president elect to take a look at history as it relates to the words law and order and what it has meant in this country and certainly to people abroad as well. depending on where you come from, if youre in this country from a third world country and hear the term law and order, it c...

Substantial briefings about the threats and the sources and methods used by americans to keep the national security apparatus safe, and its an intense and very informative and eye opening experience donald trump will have with the new level at the highest form of our government, the secrets of the government, and its a sobering kind of report and its often thought that when presidents-elect really get to see what is in the book they have a new view of the enormity of the job they have, and he is...

Sources tell nbc news today that donald trump called mitt romney the 2012 republican presidential nominee after trumps unexpected victory tuesday night. romney had come out forcefully against the president elect calling him a phoney and a fraud. lets bring in elise jordan, former advisory to the rand paul campaign. most curious, concerning the history between them, why do you think trump would call romney? >> trump has been on really exceptional behavior overall with the exception of one tweet a...

Also going to get a detail and thats covered under the family details of the white house. >> the expense of this? >> just to put a price tag on it. it is needed. look at what we are seeing outside and around. >> thats the thing, the level of, we just did this report on some, you know, graffiti that was written, you know and children chanting things in school. the flip side is there are people talking about doing harm to president elect trump. the secret service got to take it seriously. >> 100%....

God with these things, you know, hillary clinton has some huge percentage chance of winning. i think in the future we who use polls have got to say they are interesting, they give us some information, but youve got to understand especially based on, you know, the lesson of 2016 that public opinion can move very fluidly and i think what we saw in the lasten days of this campaign was voters moving in a way that was very fast and sometimes too fast to be captured by pollsters and some of these cruc...

Political legacy of the president. >> we dont yet know how -- >> timothy? >> how well this campaign against isis in mosul and northern iraq is going to go. so far so good. if isis -- when president elect trump takes the oath of office in january and isis is not running mosul, then some of the criticism of the obama administrations approach to isis or isil in iraq is going to be muted. so its way too early. the last thing i would say about legacy, president obama will be the youngest man to leave...

Not measure up, especially because we were still in world war ii to the legs of franklin roosevelt, did much better. so i think if we have a president who makes a huge effort to say, give me a chance, as hillary clinton was saying the other day, you know, give him a chance to lead and makes this effort to heal the country and unite it, i think people might see a surprise. >> you know, one of the president elects campaign promises was to, quote, train the swamp in washington. when was the last ti...

Protesters lights fire to the state flag outside of state capitol. >> and then miami, demonstrators had this message for the new president-elect. >> donald trump is not welcome. go happily. >> trump supporters, though, have a different message, give the president-elect a chance. cnns polo sandoval has more. polo, we understand there was also a shooting in portland. >> major american cities we have seen the numbers grow, as you mentioned, victor, some have grown in intensity as well. >> reporter:...

And when they save, you save. thats home and auto insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate company. click or call. . president-elect trump made a lot of president elect was on the campaign trail. item one on trumps to-do list could will be the plan that launched his presidency. >> were going to build a wall folks. >> and he could continue work on sections of such a wall, which is already been going on for years on the u.s./mexico border, but expanding farther for a complete wall...